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I have talked to many people that have taken a class online entirely through FaceBook. I can honestly say that none of them liked it. They found it really hard to go back and read things they missed, or to keep track of what was said in the class group. FaceBook groups and pages are good ideas t...
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For the few that haven’t heard yet – Blackboard and Desire2Learn have both reached an agreement to stop all legal activities against each other. And that is about all we know about it, because both sides are not revealing any reason or motive for this move. Many are happy to hear this...
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Digital Natives are better at multitasking than older generations? Please. My generation (Gen X) practically perfected multi-tasking. Let’s take a look back to the 80s for a second:Our multitasking was in the form of listening to a Walkman while sitting in front of the TV and doing homewo...
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Earlier this year, Harriet and I went to a few conference presenting on “Will Web 3.0 Change the Way We Educate?“ It was a fun presentation that involved play dough, audience participation, and our New Vision for the Learning Management System.As we were getting ready to present anot...
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The new year is almost upon us. Resolutions are being made as predictions are flying left and right. Oh… and nothing that was supposed to die this year has died yet.So now it is time to just change the year on those predictions to ‘2010′ and hope that no one notices that our pr...
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Yesterday I got to meet the original EduPunk himself, Jim Groom. Not sure who Jimk Grrom is? Well, watch this video for an idea:Jim has some great ideas for what you can do with blogs in education. The basic ideas can be found here:http://blog.uta.edu/~jgroom/presentation/Also, you can see how...
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Finally – my Google Wave invite is here. I have heard that if you get invited by someone else, don't mention their name on a public site – because that person will get inundated by requests for an invitation! Of course, the person that sent me an invite knows who they are –...
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The university I work for recently hosted a luncheon with Douglas Rushkoff, social media theorist and author of books such as Life, Inc. If you haven't heard of Rushkoff, he has some pretty good ideas (some that are fully radical in nature) that are all good food for thought. He was asked to...
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Finally – my Google Wave invite is here. I have heard that if you get invited by someone else, don't mention their name on a public site – because that person will get inundated by requests for an invitation! Of course, the person that sent me an invite knows who they are –...
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The university I work for recently hosted a luncheon with Douglas Rushkoff, social media theorist and author of books such as Life, Inc. If you haven't heard of Rushkoff, he has some pretty good ideas (some that are fully radical in nature) that are all good food for thought. He was asked to...
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I have to admit that I am not an expert in Personal Learning Environments. I really don’t follow much of the thought on them, not because they aren’t important, but mainly because I tend to focus on other areas of education. But when it comes to the “New Vision for Learning Mana...
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I wish I could tell you that I have been secretly playing with Google Wave for the last week, and this was my report on what I found. But, sadly – no Google Wave invites have appeared in my account. The good news is that I finally got my Google Voice invite! (how long has that been out?)W...
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I read an article about some new lawsuit Blackboard is filing against someone that they really shouldn’t because… well, the Borg has so many lawsuits out there now that I just can’t keep the details straight. But the deal is… it’s another lawsuit. That million doll...
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Google, Zoho, and a whole host of others have been giving us free, totally online alternatives to MicroSoft Office applications for a few years now… and these alternatives pretty much rock. But what about the creative type people? Are they stuck shelling out big bucks for PhotoShop and ot...
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Give me a second while I remove the palm from my forehead. Okay, here we go again – yet another wanna-be futurist desperate for press is predicting the death of universities. The Wired Campus has a short, great article on this silliness:Colleges Will Be ‘Torn Apart’ by Interne...
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THE Journal released an interview last week with Chris Chinnock (board member of the 3D@Home Consortium) about the future of 3-D in Education. If you haven’t read the article, then go read it – there is some interesting information in there. But I have a few thoughts that were left ...
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Like many people, I read the New York Times story about the FaceBook Exodus last week. I then laughed at how silly it was and moved on. But then I started seeing this article linked to every where… from many people thinking it actually had a point. It kind of shocked me how few people c...
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Somewhere, deep in the bowels of the Google Bat Cave, I bet there is a very closely-guarded vault that only a few people have access to. Inside this vault is a document that everyone from Microsoft to FaceBook to yours truly wants to get their hands on. Some object or map or piece of paper &#...
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Just had to get that off my chest. I don’t hate Twitter, or think that it should never be used. I just don’t find it very relevant to my life. And I have good reasons for that. Other people have good reasons why it is the best online tool in their digital life. And they find pret...
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I’m not sure why I am so interested in augmented reality. I guess it seems more practical and immanent that virtual reality. Maybe I was really, really scared by The Matrix and I don’t want to be enslaved by the machines. Maybe it has been a slow week in EdTech news. After all ...
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I remember hearing about Posterous when it first came out. It was nice, but at the time didn’t really stick out above all of the other social sites coming out at the time. However, I took another look at Posterous when a student in a class I am adjuncting featured it in a project. What a...
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The nets are ringing today with the shot heard ’round the LMS: a federal appeals court finally invalidated Blackboard’s silly 1999 patent. I have to admit, at one point I had lost hope that sanity would ever prevail in this case. This is far from over, but at least someone out ther...
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EduGeek Journal Trying to connect EduGeek Journal with FaceBook better. Hopefully, blog posts will start showing up here soon. Also started using the Networked Blog function. If you are also using that you can follow us through that.
Bla Check out Commonwealth of Learning at www.col.org! They're a fantastic organization bringing education to millions at no cost to the learners!
EduGeek Journal Online education will rule the world! "Who needs class when you have Ed Tech!" Errr.... Hmm......
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